The GOP’s total outrage about the Mar-a-Lago raid may not last long.
“Trump is winning the FBI-raid caucus going away,” National Review editor Rich LowryMonday night. “We’ll learn more, but this is his best day in pursuit of the 2024 nomination in a long time.”
I get it. There’s no doubt that GOP primary politics have gotten hinky. Once we get past the midterms and the presidential primary gets underway, though, a switch is going to flip that could turn what now appears to be useful martyrdom—Trump’s supposed persecution from the FBI, the Jan. 6 committee, and fellow haters—into standard, run-of-the-mill political baggage: Republicans are going to start running against him.Consider the circumstances.
We’ll see soon enough what polling data shows about public perceptions of the raid on Mar-a-Lago. But there’s a strong chance the American public is going to have a more nuanced opinion of its appropriateness than that of the MAGA base. Rather than seeing it as a crooked persecution, the public at-largethat federal authorities would find reasons to investigate Trump for crimes. They might even
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